American Scriptures: An Anthology of Sacred Writings by Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp

A groundbreaking choice of sacred Christian writings of yankee starting place from Mormons, Shakers, Christian Scientists, and others.

"Scripture" is any paintings within which the authors, translators, editors, or discoverers all declare to have obtained knowledge from a resource outdoor themselves, be it revelation, enlightened philosophy, or historic archive. For the 1st time in one quantity, American Scriptures gathers fifteen of those texts from spiritual routine with origins within the usa. Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp's concise unmarried quantity will enlighten not just readers attracted to the ancient and non secular facets of the scriptural texts, but in addition these whose curiosity has been piqued by means of such bestsellers as Angels and Demons and The Da Vinci Code.

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Seminar paper from the 12 months 2007 within the topic American reviews - Literature, grade: 2,7, Johannes Gutenberg college Mainz (Amerikanistik, Anglistik und Anglophonie), path: Settling the Prairies: historical past and fable- Making within the usa and Canada, nine entries within the bibliography, language: English, summary: This paper bargains with the clash among the generations in Margaret Laurence’s novel The Diviners.